Like last summer, I went to the the manga and anime fair Comiket (コミケット) on Odaiba. Again I wanted to take pictures of the many cosplay girls and guys who gather at the Tokyo Big Sight venue. I also went to the となりでコスプレ博 (tonari de kosupure-haku — Cosplay in the Neighborhood exhibition) event in the TFT halls which, unlike the Comiket, costs money to enter. But due to the fact that the Comiket is attended by about 500,000 visitors and many thousands of cosplayers, photography at there is much more harder with all the other people taking pictures in the rather small areas where photography is allowed.

After grabbing a few shots indoors at the Comiket I went outside to the dedicated cosplay areas, where it was really crowded, hot and not that well suited for getting nice images. So I moved to the nearby Tokyo Fashion Town building and the Tonari de Cosplay expo.
As you can see, cosplays of Vocaloid characters were extremely popular this year!

Large crowds of manga fans at the Kokusai-Tenjijō station of the JR Rinkai line.

The entrance to the Tokyo Big Sight convention center.

One of several huge halls where tens of thousands of manga illustrators and related artists offer their merchandise.

Two female cosplayers dressed up as Nathan Seymour/Fire Emblem and Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone from the Tiger & Bunny (タイガー＆バニー) anime.